1st Assistant Kenyon Haynes
While I wasn’t able to land a head coaching job, it looks like most of the responsibilities of that position for Towson this season are going to be placed on my shoulders with Coach Aura expected to be out of town most of the time. As such I’ll give you a brief recap of each game. I think I will be too busy to do much more than that.
Starters will be: PG Jon Spann, 6-0 Soph. (9.0 ppg, 2.8 apg, 2.4 spg last season), SG Dominick Collins, 6-0 Sr. (10.7 ppg, 2.2 apg, 2.5 rpg), SF Mac McCaffery, 6-7 Soph. (4.1 ppg, 0.8 apg, 1.9 rpg), PF Kevin Holmes, 6-7 Jr. (8.1 ppg, 1.7 apg, 4.6 rpg), and C Donny Flint, 6-9 Sr. (12.7 ppg, 1.6 apg, 10.1 rpg). Our primary reserves will be C/PF Donyell Porter, 6-10 Sr. (7.5 ppg, 1.0 apg, 3.4 rpg), SG Copley Dwiggins, 6-1 Jr. (3.3 ppg, 0.7 apg, 0.3 rpg), and C/PF Calvin Williams, 6-8 Soph. (2.8 ppg, 0.8 apg, 3.3 rpg). Our other subs are freshmen and a JC transfer so we’ll have to see how they will fit in. But I foresee a much shorter bench than we’ve had the past few seasons. We worked hard on conditioning the past month, but I still think the starters plus the top 5 reserves will be dragging at times.
Realizing that with Coach Aura absent we’d be under a lot of pressure, our AD Perry Winkle set up an easier pre-conference schedule for us. We’re again picked to be tops in the Colonial Athletic Association though, so hopefully we’re ready to take on the CAA opposition once conference play begins.